Astronaut Quotes - Page 13

• The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine.

  James Irwin

  Beautiful, Christmas, Space

  "Astronomically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations on Astronomy and Physics" by C.C. Gaither and Alma E Cavazos-Gaither, (p. 262), 2003.

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• For the first time American astronauts on the International Space Station ate vegetables grown in space. In other words, even space is getting more rain than California.

  Conan O'Brien

  Rain, Vegetables, California

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• I'm fully aware that if I were to change professions tomorrow, become an astronaut and be the first man to land on Mars, the headlines in the newspapers would read: `Mr. Darcy Lands on Mars.

  Colin Firth

  Men, Land, Mars

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• One Chief Astronaut used to make a point of phoning the front desk at the clinic where applicants are sent for medical testing, to find out which ones treated the staff well-and which ones stood out in a bad way. The nurses and clinic staff have seen a whole lot of astronauts over the years, and they know what the wrong stuff looks like. A person with a superiority complex might unwittingly, right there in the waiting room, quash his or her chances of ever going to space.

  Chris Hadfield

  Space, Waiting Rooms, Years

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• Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Teacher, Actors

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• During the first few minutes in lift-off, the astronauts were strictly controlled and were powerfully buffeted by the forces of nature struggling to keep them on earth. This is somewhat comparable to the pull of the flesh when our alarm goes off early in the morning. Unless we put "mind over mattress" and carry out the resolves made the night before, we will experience our first defeat that day. Not sufficient to finish. Mission aborted.

  Stephen Covey

  Morning, Struggle, Night

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• The great thing about being an astronaut is you kind of get to do a little bit of everything. I mean, we're going to ride a rocket uphill.

  David M. Brown

  Mean, Littles, Rockets

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• Star Trek speaks to some basic human needs: that there is a tomorrow — it's not all going to be over with a big flash and a bomb; that the human race is improving; that we have things to be proud of as humans. No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids — human beings built them, because they're clever and they work hard. And Star Trek is about those things.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Stars, Clever, Hard Work

  Interview on September 20, 1988. Included in "Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 5" DVD No. 7, "Mission Logs: Year Five/A Tribute to Gene Roddenberry",

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• Astronauts: rotarians in outer space.

  Gore Vidal

  Space, Astronomy, Outer Space

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• Every astronaut flew into space for a living. But while NASA has not solved the security problems, I would not put me back into a shuttle - and no other astronaut. The confidence is shaken.

  Ulrich Walter

  Space, Problem, Nasa

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• The suffix 'naut' comes from the Greek and Latin words for ships and sailing. Astronaut suggests 'a sailor in space.' Chimponaut suggests 'a chimpanzee in sailor pants'.

  Mary Roach

  Latin, Space, Sailing

  Mary Roach (2011). “Packing for Mars”, p.198, Oneworld Publications

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• Every single astronaut who has come back from space comes back determined to do more to protect it.

  Richard Branson

  Space, Determined, Protect

  "CEO Interview: Richard Branson on space travel". Interview with Susan Montoya Bryan, newsok.com. November 23, 2010.

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• Just in case God isn't dead, our astronauts carry sidearms.

  Ben Lerner

  Cases

  Ben Lerner (2006). “Angle of Yaw”, p.114, Copper Canyon Press

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• Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.

  Trent Reznor

  Stars, Rocks, Careers

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• When provoked, the itsy-bitsy invertebrates known as tardigrades can suspend their metabolism. In that state, they can survive temperatures of... 73 K for days on end, making them hardy enough to endure being stranded on Neptune. So the next time you need space travelers with the right stuff, you might want to choose yeast and tardigrades, and leave your astronauts, cosmonauts, and taikonauts at home.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Home, Space, Needs

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.177, W. W. Norton & Company

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• As a kid, I wanted to be an astronaut. And my own passion was that I wanted to be a film director. I realized that being an astronaut was not going to be an option, so I said, "Well, I'm going to be a director and do films in space."

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Passion, Kids, Space

  "Comic-Con: Sandra Bullock and Director Alfonso Cuarón Talk GRAVITY, the Long Takes, 3D, Pranks on Set, Preparing for the Role, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 23, 2013.

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• I'm not making light of prayers here, but of so-called school prayer, which bears as much resemblance to real spiritual experienceas that freeze-dried astronaut food bears to a nice standing rib roast. From what I remember of praying in school, it was almost an insult to God, a rote exercise in moving your mouth while daydreaming or checking out the cutest boy in the seventh grade that was a far, far cry from soul-searching.

  Anna Quindlen

  Spiritual, Prayer, Nice

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• So much goes into doing a transplant operation. All the way from preparing the patient, to procuring the donor. It's like being an astronaut. The astronaut gets all the credit, he gets the trip to the moon, but he had nothing to do with the creation of the rocket, or navigating the ship. He's the privileged one who gets to drive to the moon. I feel that way in some of these more difficult operations, like the heart transplant.

  Denton Cooley

  Heart, Moon, Rockets

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. April 11, 1991.

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• After years of training [as astronaut], you have great confidence in the technology. When you get in your car, you probably feel safe too, even though thousands of people die in car crashes every year.

  Ulrich Walter

  Technology, Years, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm just a big boy, I'm still just playing cowboys and Indians and astronaut and baseball player and all that stuff that I used to play as a kid.

  Bryan Cranston

  Baseball, Kids, Boys

  "Bryan Cranston Talks ROCK OF AGES, DRIVE, JOHN CARTER, Reveals He’s Writing and Directing HOME AGAIN and Says He Almost Did X-MEN: FIRST CLASS". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. August 12, 2011.

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• No matter that astronauts and cosmonauts had perished in precisely designed and carefully tested machines. Solid engineering could always provide a safety margin, because the engineers believed, there was complete safety in numbers.

  William E. Burrows

  Engineering, Numbers, Safety

  William E. Burrows (2010). “This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age”, p.560, Modern Library

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• It was hard to become an astronaut. Not anywhere near as much physical training as people imagine, but a lot of mental training, a lot of learning. You have to learn everything there is to know about the Space Shuttle and everything you are going to be doing, and everything you need to know if something goes wrong, and then once you have learned it all, you have to practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice until everything is second nature, so it's a very, very difficult training, and it takes years.

  Sally Ride

  Years, Practice, Space

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• There's a huge amount of pressure on every astronaut, because when you get right down to it, the experiments that are conducted on a space flight, or the satellites that are carried up, the work that's to be done, is important and expensive work, and you are up there for a week or two on a Space Shuttle flight. The country has invested a lot of money in you and your training, and the Space Shuttle and everything that's in it, and you have to do things correctly. You can't make a mistake during that week or two that you're in space.

  Sally Ride

  Country, Mistake, Space Flight

  "Astronaut Hall of Fame". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 2, 2006.

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• The Stone trembled and threw herself outward bound, toward Saturn. In her train followed hundreds and thousands and hundreds of thousands of thousands of restless, rolling Stones . . . to Saturn . . . to Uranus, to Pluto . . . rolling on out to the stars . . . outward bound to the ends of the Universe.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Stars, Rolling, Stones

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• My parents were not pushy or anything like that. I think my mom was still expecting me to be an astronaut, but now she is very happy that I'm not doing that.

  Berenice Bejo

  Mom, Thinking, Parent

  Source: deadline.com

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